Save a frail sister in the female row.

LETTER XV.

INHABITANTS OF THE ALMS-HOUSE.

She early found herself mistress of herself. All she did was right; all

she said was admired. Early, very early, did she dismiss blushes from

her cheek: she could not blush because she could not doubt; and silence,

whatever was her subject, was as much a stranger to her as diffidence.

RICHARDSON.

Quo fugit Venus! heu! Quove color? decens

Quo motus? Quid habes illius, illius,